[tomphoolery]

Interesting take on SystemD. I personally find it very helpful, but one of its major downsides as a project is that it is, to borrow a quote from Benno Rice, "aggressively Linux-specific". That said, it appears their own software choices prevent them from using it as summarized in the following quote:

> That’s why one of the goals in Chimera is to implement the actual useful systemd functionality, but independently and in our own way, without the shortcomings.

I question whether it would be possible for SystemD to be portable to other software stacks? Seems like it would be useful enough to attempt that port rather than literally rewrite SystemD, and you get to satisfy _both_ the SystemD stans and the haters at the same time! But who knows, it might lead to some kind of future innovation to have competing products doing the same thing...

[Santosh83]

I think SystemD moves too fast, is too opinionated, and is too sprawling for those who're capable of porting it, to actually want to do that work, instead of writing a partial replacement, like this project does.

[IshKebab]

Nobody is going to use SystemD on Mac or Windows so why does it matter if it is Linux specific?

[lproven]

Linux is not the only FOSS Unix, you know.